Morphology is a field of image processing that is based on set theory. The basis is working with a black and white (binary) image. Morphological operations are also defined for a grayscale image and can be extended to a color and 3D image. In the following sections, we will focus on morphological operations with black-and-white and grayscale images. More information about morphology and morphological operations can be found in [1] [2] [3].

References

[1] Mathworks, Morphological Operations, online: https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/morphological-filtering.html

[2] Gonzalez, R., C., Woods, E., W., Digital Image Processing, Global Edition, 4th edition, Pearson  2018, ISBN 10: 1-292-22304-9

[3] Gonzalez, R., C., Woods, E., W., Eddings, S., L., Digital Image Processing using MATLAB, Gatesmark Publishing,  ISBN-10: 0-9820854-1-9

[4] Haralick, Robert M., and Linda G. Shapiro. Computer and Robot Vision, Volume I. Addison-Wesley, 1992.


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